Re: XP rights vs Buyers usage?
- From: "Pelysma" <pelysma@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 20:40:25 GMT
<trybry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,
Can someone tell me, if the machine comes with XP, that it only can be
used on that machine? Even if, that machine has passed on or is out of
service?
Technically, legally, if the product serial number includes the string
"OEM", your license is only valid with the hardware on which it was
originally installed.
I have the original disk and prod key, can I get this large hunk of, MS
Spyware to work?
Actually, you can, although it may not be legal to do so (read, "I'm not
advising you to do this.").
If you have the original CD, it will certainly install on another machine,
and it's unlikely Microsoft will enforce the restriction given above, given
that the original computer is defunct. The automated Product Activation
system expects computers to change over time, and provides for re-installed
software to be reactivated with a changed configuration. To give some
rationalization to what you are doing, you might try installing some of the
hardware, particularly the network card if it's portable, from your old
laptop in the new machine during installation.
OEM software is distributed with all sorts of hardware (semi-legally) and
the install disk normally contains no record of the machine for which it is
intended. It may, however, be taylored to your laptop and lack drivers for
the machine on which you install it; some post-install hardware
configuration may be needed.
If you install Windows on a computer that previously had been running
Windows OEM XP Home, and has its own Product Activation Key, you should use
that key, not your laptop's. Early in the Product Activation cycle you will
have an opportunity to change the Product Key; do this, and enter the
Product Key from the sticker on the machine. Then, in the next step, exit
the Product Activation process and restart it. Most likely it will continue
and pass automatically. If not, you are back to square one. What you are
proposing to do doesn't technically satisfy their license requirements and
Microsoft has the right to object. The provision for changing the Product
Key is to give users the opportunity to enter a valid license if the machine
has been operating with a stolen one. I'm sure you can see the irony in
this.
Recently I used my Dell installation CD to repair a Gateway computer that
someone else had formatted in the attempt to repair it. It thought it was a
Dell for a few minutes, until I used the Gateway drivers disk to remodel it.
In this case, both computers had valid licenses for XP OEM Home Edition, and
Microsoft doesn't care where the data comes from as long as the license is
appropriate. Your situation is (ahem) stretching it a bit.
--
P.
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